Specific Types of Gardening (01)

Doctor Greenfingers' Online Gardening Advice
Doc Greenfingers offers a "gardening help and advice clinic" for gardeners. Tailored for UK residents, but beneficial for everyone, you can read about jobs you can do each month in your garden. Learn how to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs by getting tips from experts. Read up on how to get your lawn looking green and weed-free. If you are a beginner gardening, you can get lots of advice on how to start a new garden. Learn how to remove and control weeds and pests. You can also get advice on buying seeds and planting them. Each section has a clinic-type name, which makes the site fun.

Hydroponic Grow Lights
Depending on the time of year that you are starting to grow your plants, you may decide that you need to use grow lights to keep your plants growing or simply to start a strong seeding process. Your choice of grow lights will vary by size, temperature emitted and the actual light that is emitted as well. This brief article discusses many types of grow lights available, especially used by hydroponic gardeners.

Green Nature's Tips on Watering the Vegetable Garden
Water is very important in a vegetable garden, especially when it makes up 80-90 percent of the vegetable's "fresh weight". This site offers tips such as suggesting the use of an inch of water per week in the summer. Water can either be provide via the garden hose or by Mother Nature. Water affects fruit size, yield, and quality, so refer to this site to make sure you are watering your vegetable garden correctly. This site also features Green Nature photography, travel information and even clip art.

The History of Hydroponics
Although hydroponics has become increasingly popular with modern technology, the practice of growing plants without soil has developed from the findings of experiments carried out to determine what substances make plants grow and the composition of plants. This work dates back as early as the 1600s. However, plants were being grown in a soil-less culture far earlier than this. Hydroponics is at least as ancient as the pyramids. A primitive form has been carried on in Kashmir for centuries. The process of growing plants in the ocean goes back to about the time the earth was created. But as a farming tool, many believe it started in the ancient city of Babylon, where the famous hanging gardens are listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was here that was probably one of the first successful attempts to grow plants hydroponically. The rest of this website details how hydroponics, as an industry, has evolved into what it is today. This website is ideal for hy! droponic research, as it details in depth the past, present and future of the hydroponic growing industry.

Feng Shui Gardening Tips
Nowadays Feng Shui has many different applications. Have you ever thought about using Feng Shui in the garden? This site does a great job of running down a simple, yet useful list of tips, such as "have a clear walkway to your door", "add a water fountain," or "create a herb garden."